What you can export from Instagram
This tool pulls the full public comment thread of any Instagram post, Reel, or IGTV. For each comment, you get a structured row in your Excel/CSV/JSON file containing:
- username — the @-handle of the commenter
- comment — the full text, with @mentions preserved exactly as written
- timestamp — ISO 8601 UTC + your local timezone
- likes — current like count on the comment
- reply_to — the @-handle this is a reply to (lets you reconstruct threads in Excel with one VLOOKUP)
- permalink — direct URL to the comment on Instagram
Three formats — pick the one that fits your workflow
Excel (.xlsx)
Best for human review and reports. Pre-formatted with auto-filter on every column, frozen header row, and timestamp columns formatted as Excel dates.
CSV (.csv)
Best for ETL or database imports. UTF-8 with BOM (so Excel-on-Windows opens it correctly), RFC 4180-compliant escaping for newlines inside comments. Drop straight into Tableau, Power BI, BigQuery, or your data warehouse.
JSON (.json)
Best for code consumers. Preserves the nested reply structure as { comment: {...}, replies: [{...}] } so you don't need to do parent-lookups in code.
Use cases
- Influencer reporting — count engaged commenters per sponsored post for the brand's monthly report.
- Giveaway winner selection — export the entry list, then run our random comment picker against the export.
- Sentiment analysis — feed the CSV into ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, or a pivot table to score positive vs negative reactions to a launch.
- UGC and review collection — pull comments from a product-launch post and feed them into your testimonial gallery.
- FTC compliance archive — store the export alongside the sponsored-post screenshot for the 2-year FTC retention requirement.
- Brand listening — bulk-export comments from competitors' posts to spot complaints and feature requests.
Public posts vs private accounts
Public posts (the vast majority of brand and creator content) require no login — the exporter reads exactly what an unauthenticated browser would see. For private accounts you follow, the authenticated mode lets you log in with your own Instagram session and export comments from posts you have legitimate access to. We never store your password — auth is OAuth-style and scoped to read-only.
Bulk and scheduled exports (paid plans)
- Bulk URL upload — upload a CSV of multiple URLs and download all the resulting files in one ZIP (one file per URL).
- Scheduled exports — set a cron-style rule like "every Monday at 9am, export new comments on @mybrand's last 10 posts" and have the file delivered to S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, or a webhook.
- Webhook delivery — get HTTP POST'd the moment an export finishes; great for piping into your CRM or marketing-ops automation.
- API access — the same exporter as a JSON-over-HTTP endpoint, for embedding in your own product.
How long does it take?
Instagram heavily rate-limits comment reads. Even modest posts (a few thousand comments) typically take 10-15 minutes; large posts (tens of thousands of comments or more) can take longer depending on the rate-limit window. You don't need to keep the tab open — start the export, close the page, and we'll email you when the file is ready.